#30Thursday post number three!

Boy, there were some AMAZING posts this last week! I got some great recommendations, and making choices for the remainder was tough. I hope you enjoy reading these posts as much as I did. Maybe they will inspire you to write your own blog post in response.

Don’t forget – start your own 30Thursday post. Ask people to submit blog posts to you. #30Thursday becoming a community of blog reading, writing, and sharing is my dream 🙂

1. We were off and running with this post from Matt Shaw. He calls it his “boogie man post” and he calls out Chris Brogan.

Thank you for including the post to round up your list. I am honored to be in such great company. This post was very near and dear to me as we are all using twitter differently and that is fine but man oh man how dare you self promote when something so serious is going on in your community? Now they are not heavy tweeters but that is not really an excuse considering they took the tweet down and did not have an apology until AFTER the post went up. Did the post prompt them? Not sure but when I did reach out to them after they apologized, they did not respond to me. Interesting.

When we use the tools that are afforded to us we have to consider our community – locally and online. I am not there but I felt for these people as if I was. I thought about the people, their families and also the businesses that would be affected not necessarily for sales but for the impact it would have on them being in the community. A lesson here was learned not necessarily about how to use Twitter but more on how we treat those around us.

Absolutely. I didn’t see it till a couple of days after you had actually posted it, but I think it’s an amazing post, and I give you major kudos not only for spotting that but also for shining a real bright spotlight on it. It calls into question so many things about Twitter use.

As a somewhat related example, a friend of mine is really being hounded by a total turd, so I went to the Twitter help page to see what we could do. The turd is clever and changes names whenever someone blocks them. Twitter’s stance is that it will not step in to moderate any situation and everyone has the right to free speech. If you feel you’re being endangered, call the police.

I can’t really decide if I think that is fair or not. It’s their site. If you show proof that someone is decreasing the quality of your experience and your life, shouldn’t they do something about it? I dunno. Slippery slope, I suppose, but still…

Thanks so much for the shout-out, Marjorie! Sorry to get back to you a bit late on this, but it’s an impressive #30Thursday list in which to be included – I greatly appreciate such kind words. The creativity series with Tim Leake was fantastically engrossing to work on and I have to say I felt honored to have the chance to pass along his lasting creative insights from his agency experience. Thankfully after having gone through your post, I have quite a few blogs still to dig into. Cheers!

Thanks so much for including me on this list — took a look at a few of your recs and all were qute good (and I never would have seen them without you — so thank you doubly!).

Every time I find someone who is smart, honest (as in really honest, not just “I am telling you I am honest so therefore I am honest”) and real, I feel like maybe the world if a fantastic place after all 🙂

~Allison
(you mixed some letters in my last name — it’s a bear, I know 🙂 — so I never got a Google Alert about this and thus am only commenting now!)